Oklahoma August 2011

Oklahoma can be a very beautiful place, depending where you go of course.
Here are some pictures from my parent's backyard and the drive home.
Enjoy. XOXOXO

Kate Hudson

This is my friend Kate Hudson, she graciously allowed me to dress her up and photograph her. These are a few of my favorites. Enjoy!

Wax Museum

I went to the local wax museum with a friend recently and had a blast.
The lights are kept low so as not to over heat the wax sculptures so many of my pictures did not come out that well. Mainly because my hands are shaky and the camera was taking longer to take the pictures. I was able to get a few good shots though.

Hello Abe. This was a part of a display showing how the sculptures are made. This part shows how they paint them, in an attempt to make them look more life-like.

A case full of different molds used for movies or plays and molds of famous/influential people. Can you name them all? I couldn't but I did recognize a few.

Whoopi Goldberg.

Pretty good, huh?

Johnny Depp.

Yummy.

The Tin Man.

One of my favorite movies/musicals. Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Phantom of the Opera, and The King and I are some of the others.

Catwoman.

Sleeping Beauty and Prince Charming.

I know he actually has a name in the story but I can't remember what it is. It's funny though because the sculpture doesn't look very charming to me.

This is probably my favorite picture. Not because of the subjects but because of the layout/positions of the subjects. The museum has an entire walk through display of the life of Jesus. This display shows a young Jesus discussing with and teaching the older priests in the temple. I love the look of slight skepticism from the the priest in the background.

Black and Whites

Sorry for the lack of posts, life has been... well... life.
I had another fun with makeup session but this one was more subdued. Plus the black and white takes away some of the colors that I had going on.

Okay starting off, this one was very simple I set up the camera and tripod and smiled. My father had mentioned that I don't smile in my pictures and that was mainly because I was taking pictures to allow the easiest editing in Photoshop. The makeup was from earlier in the day and I did not add any extra for this shot.

More smiles, more attempts at natural posing.

Okay, I am smirking in this one, I swear! I was really trying to get natural looking poses and then some "fashion" posing later.

Here is my first "fashion" pose, haha, I do like the way it turned out. For this I stuck my hair on the top of my head and added some red lipstick to my upper lip only. I also made the peaks of my upper lip very sharp and defined. You can't really see it in this shot but it is there.

Here you can more clearly see the sharp defined peaks of my upper lip. Again, an attempt at "fashion" poses. I say fashion mainly because it reminds me of "high fashion" advertising.

Here is my evil smirk, hahaha! Again, you can see the sharp peaks of my upper lip and if this was in color you would see that I had applied a turquoise blue eyeshadow under my eyes and fading onto my cheeks. I liked it when I put it on but after looking at the pictures it didn't seem right, hence the black and white.

Lastly, a simple smile.

Hope you enjoyed and sorry again for the lateness.

OXOXOXO